Newcomers to the extended SSA list 2025

As surprising as some of these are on their own (Forty?), I’m not surprised to see a lot of spelling variations, word names, reference names, new surname names, as well as what I assume are some invented names. There are fewer social expectations around baby-naming nowadays, and hey, it leads to strange places, but it’s interesting. I expect to keep seeing more of these, especially surname names and word names.

I’m torn on Wynstin. It’s obviously a spelling variation on [name_m]Winston[/name_m], done for uniqueness sake, but it stood out to me immediately because it’s similar to Wynnstan, the Old [name_m]English[/name_m] name that [name_m]Winston[/name_m] probably comes from. I couldn’t help but be excited to see the Wy- beginning even though it’s obviously a coincidence and Wynnstan is not being revived anytime soon :sweat_smile:

Is Koul supposed to be a spelling variation on…cool?

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